Decoupling of DeGiorgi-type systems via multi-marginal optimal transport

DOI10.1080/03605302.2013.849730zbMATH Open1294.49024arXiv1302.3280OpenAlexW1965325311MaRDI QIDQ2875586FDOQ2875586

Authors: Nassif Ghoussoub, Brendan Pass 

Publication date: 8 August 2014

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We exhibit a surprising relationship between elliptic gradient systems of PDEs, multi-marginal Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problem, and multivariable Hardy-Littlewood inequalities. We show that the notion of an orientable elliptic system, conjectured in [6] to imply that (in low dimensions) solutions with certain monotonicity properties are essentially 1-dimensional, is equivalent to the definition of a compatible cost function, known to imply uniqueness and structural results for optimal measures to certain Monge-Kantorovich problems [11]. Orientable nonlinearities and compatible cost functions turned out to be also related to submodular functions, which appear in rearrangement inequalities of Hardy-Littlewood type. We use this equivalence to establish a decoupling result for certain solutions to elliptic PDEs and show that under the orientability condition, the decoupling has additional properties, due to the connection to optimal transport.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.3280

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zbMATH Keywords

optimal transportsubmodularitycompatibilityrearrangement inequalitiesDeGiorgi conjectureelliptic systems of PDEsH-monotonicitymulti-marginal Monge-Kantorovich problemorientable system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Entire solutions to PDEs (35B08) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Systems of functional equations and inequalities (39B72)

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